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I would say Google is the best place to get all these informations. There are a lot of online guides that teaches photoshop, as well as many other graphic designing softwares.

I learn my photoshop via this channel as well. Everytime i wanted to do a project and face a problem, either i ask in forum or I just went to Google the exact task, eg: create transparent background with photoshop, right away, there are lots and lots of resources that guide you step by step on your task.

I find this even more effective than reading the book, because I can have my hands on and try and that makes me remember even better.

But, this is just my personal opinion...basically i am a very forgetful person,I might just forget everything I learn from the book, if I just study and learn from beginning till the end.

Where did you get that link from the email when you signed up for the sample? I tried it a few weeks back and it worked for me.

As for learning PS I am just finishing up a couple CSS books now and plan on moving on to photoshop next including the PS Anthology, What I have been doing up until now for practice is typing 'photoshop tutorials' or something like 'mirror image photoshop' into google and doing a walk through of the tutorials.

I would give you some links but honestly there are so many out there that it really depends on how new you are. At first when I purchased PS and installed it I knew almost nothing so I looked for tutorials which were VERY basic and had a lot more 'hand holding' than some of the more advanced ones so if you are already familiar with a lot of the tools in PS any of them should be fine but if you are brand new I would suggest looking for one that you can follow the easiest.